Coyote Point (San Mateo)
San Francisco Bay · near San Mateo · SF Bay Area
Wind Sports
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Best season
- April–September (afternoons)
- Water temperature
- Cool (upper 50s°F) — 4/3 wetsuit
What is here
- Amenities
- Classic Peninsula windsurf spot · County park with launch & parking · Reliable summer wind · SFO plane-spotting
- Best for
- Intermediate bump-and-jump sailing
- Features
- Longtime windsurf favorite · Reliable Peninsula thermal · County park facilities · Chop for bump-and-jump
Worth knowing
- Hazards
- Cold water · Chop & current · Shallow areas · Airport (SFO) nearby overhead
- Good for a first timer
- No
Guides, rentals and operators
- Lessons
- No
Wind Sports detail
- Discipline
- windsurf · kite · wing
- Conditions
- chop
- Venue
- bay
- Wind kt
- 20
- Wind
- W/NW, 15–25 kt summer afternoons — a classic Peninsula windsurf spot
- Intl tip
- A classic Peninsula windsurf spot — reliable 15–25 kt westerly, chop for bump-and-jump, county-park launch and parking. Cool water (4/3). Mellower and less crowded than 3rd Ave nearby. SFO flight path overhead. Best on summer afternoons. Good intermediate spot with room to blast. Combine a check with 3rd Ave (same wind).
The guide
Coyote Point, a wooded promontory and county park on the San Mateo bayshore, is one of the Peninsula's classic windsurfing spot…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Coyote Point (San Mateo) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.59, -122.318